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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed three Australians have been hurt when a van mowed people down in a popular tourist spot, killing more than a dozen people and injuring around one hundred more.

"There is going to be lots of storms and rain in the next two weeks and our long term forecast has rain almost every day," he said.

"Some of the days have heavy showers while others will have fewer showers." There might be a reprieve on Christmas Day.

But Mr Wood said revellers on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were set for a soaking, with a high chance of rainfall for both days.

Temperatures were also expected to fall with the rain, as the mercury stays in the 20s for the rest of the month.

"Temperatures have been cooler already, the water temperatures are cooler, between 23 to 24 degrees," Mr Wood said.

"The winds are strong and especially with all the cloud cover this means land temperatures will be cooler than they have been."

He said Brisbane residents and interstate holidaymakers would not be able to seek any shelter from the storms in coastal retreats, with Weatherzone issuing the same 28-day forecast for the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.

The expected higher-than-average rainfall did not mean there was going to be a repeat of the floods that hit Brisbane last January.

"At this point, no, there are not going to be floods like there were at the beginning of the year," he said.

Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind said he was not surprised by the forecast.

And he did not expect the tourism industry to suffer as a result. "Some of us forget Queensland does have a wet season," he said.

"It doesn't mean the weather is going to be miserable.

"It can be fine and nice during the day and then storms and rain in the afternoon.

"It's important we don't scare the locals in to thinking we could have a repeat of last January [the floods]."

Mr Gschwind said a rainy month in Brisbane was not like a rainy month in Melbourne where it was freezing and raining all day.

In Brisbane, it was possible to still enjoy nice weather during the day before it rained in the afternoon.

An earlier version of this story said the Weatherzone predicted it would rain on each of the next 30 days, however the long-range forecast was changed mid-morning.